Some people eared about my remake of Lionheart, and my LionEngine (a java game engine).Now, its time for a RTS game, with this remake of the great Warcraft, from Blizzard (1994).

I made this project in order to improve my engine, by adding an RTS abstraction.This way, strategy games are easy to develop (at least, it should... :p)

At this time, the game is playable, as a demo, including two maps, two races (Orcs & Humans), some units (Peon/Paysan, Grunt/Footman, Spearman/Archer, and their buildings TownHall, Farm, Barracks, Lumbermill).It is possible to play against a computer.

From a business/legal perspective, making a clone game (inspired by an earlier title) is one thing, but straight copying it is probably not something Blizzard will appreciate. I am not a lawyer, but you should especially avoid using their trademarks to promote your product.

I see what you were going for now. Again, IANAL, but maybe something more like "A tribute to Blizzard's classic WarCraft" to make it clearer. In any case, I hope it sticks around, because I want to give it a try.

Blizzard is notoriously zealous about guarding their IP. Only way to be safe is don't use any of their assets or any of their names, and don't put "craft" in the name. No, they don't necessarily have a case as far as owning a suffix, but their lawyers are Level 85 elite mobs.

The download runs well. Sorry, I don't have time to tinker with my plugin settings to diagnose IcedTea right now. (... and I'm trying to avoid playing because I know that would be my evening / week ...)

Mouse stuck in the upper left corner ish of screen (as if applet was in top left corner), but not even over the browser... no applet in sight. Ctrl or Esc did nothing, basically stuck. Wanted to try it again to see if console showed anything. Then it worked, until I quit, then the same thing happened again...

OS X (Lion), FF, Java 1.6

The outside browser worked fine, but would not allow changing resolution. Then game just flashed and came back to config/start menu. It also seemed to be difficult to place buildings, even though I saw a green square. Quite possibly all OS X issues.

Other than that it looked great. Looking forward to play it when I get home (to windows).

You have to use the sun-java6 instead... I don't know how to make it work with IcedTea !Else, try to download the full zip, it should work fine (else the problem is from me).

I will give it a try tomorrow but please don't advise GNU Linux users to replace IcedTea / OpenJDK by Oracle Java.

Edit.: I get this when I try your game:Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/b3dgs/warcraft/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:632) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)Could not find the main class: com.b3dgs.warcraft.Main. Program will exit.

Happened after a few minutes of playing. Not sure if it was something I was doing.

Also for some strange reason the guys stopped extracting gold They would just get out of the mine with a bag on it's back and then immediately stop and the bag would disappear... Gold from the mine was depleting but I wasn't gaining They would also stop mining. It also turned impossible to build farms after a while. The green box just turned red whenever I selected a place for the farm...

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